The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-01-28

waterbury, Conn.,, mas cSO0eO OOWn lOr
want of coal. One thousand hands are
thrown out.
REPORTS show that all the missing fisher
men who were supposed to have been lost
by the breakup Of lake ice near Buffalo, N.
Y, recently reached shore in safety. Some
had very narrow escapes.
Much uneasiness is expressed over the
appearance Of smallpox in New York.
JAMES BURKE, Q roller employed at the
Columbia rolling-mill, Lancaster, Pa, fell
into the rolls the other day and was drawn
through twice. He received terrible in
juries and died soon afterwards.
Four hundred employees Of the Universal
Rubber Company at Jersey City, N. j.,
struck on the 2lst.
Four Pinkerton detectives have been ar
rested for killing a boy named Hogan at
fired into crowd who were jeering them.
THE WEST.
J. j. UPCHURCH, founder of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, died at his home
in Steeleville, No., on the 18th, at the age
of slxty-seven years. He founded the first
lodge Of the above order in Meadviile, Pa,
in 1868.
SroCKBRIDGE. Republican, has been cleo
ted to the Senate by the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
CAPTAIN GEORGE E. LEMON had received
up to the 18th ii. O69 for the Logan fund.
The mortgages on the estate aggregate $50, :
600.
For months past farmers in the vicinity
Of Chatham, ILL.,, have been complaining Of
heavy losses of sheep by wolves, one far
mer reporting the killing Of sixteen sheep,
valued at 500, in one night, others having
suffered almost equally severe losses.
THE recount of votes in the contested
election case at Indianapolis Of Irwin, Re
publican, for criminal Judge. against Ayers,
Democrat, and Wagner, Republican, for
coroner, against Morrison, Democrat, has
terminated in favor of the Republicans.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana has de-
clared the Dow liquor tax law cOnstitu-
tional and applicable to wholesale dealers.
A LARGE panther has been seen time and
again in the Illinois river bottom, about five
miles from Tahlequah, l. T. Many sheep.
hogs and calves have been dcvoured by this
animal during the last year.
THE boiler that supplied the dry house of
Preston Riders stave factory at Crothers-
vile, Ind, blew up the other day, killing
Henry Millin and Archie Warner. Another
employee had his foot broken to pieces. The
boiler, weighing 5000 pounds, was hurled
125 feet.
A TELEGRAM from Dakota announces the
loss in blizzard of c. B. Buck and his son
Herman, of Sturgis, Mich, and Mr.. Davis,
at whose house they were stopping.
THE Minnesota Legislature elected c. K.
Davis United States Senator to succeed Mr..
Mcmillan.
A FIRE which started in Evans 4 Co.'S
shoe store burned six blocks at Alliance, O..
recently. Loss, $4,000: fairly insured.
GEORGE KIEFER, of Milwaukee. has been
acquitted of murder in killing a rough who
beat him and his wife.
FIRE in Jerseyville, ILL.,. recently de-
stroyed seven brick buildings and their
contents, causing a loss of 81, 600 on which
the insurance was $4,000.
SHANNoN's Bank, Terre Haute, Ind, es-
tablished in 1889, closed its doors on the
18th. Its liabilities aggregated 1884, 600 and
its assets $4,000.
AN abortive attempt to rob a train on
the Chicago Il Alton near Independence,
Mo-. took place on the night of the 18th.
DIR. JOHN RITTER, wholesale manufac-
turer of drugs and chemicals. Chicago, has
been temporarily restrained from using
the Carlsbad mineral spring trade mark at
the suit of the Austrian Government.
THE chairmalzers were in convention in
Chicago recently.
NINE wolves were killed recently in a
grand hunt in Douglas County, Ill.
THE citizenship court at TahleQuah, I. T.,
has cited quite a lot of persons claiming
rights in the Nation to answer to the
charges of having by fraud, bribery and
otherwise secured their rights contrary to
law. 1t is the general talk that some, in
order to get their claims through former
commissions and courts, paid as high as
5000 Several cattlemen are on the black
list, and some interesting developments are
expected.
HEARST has been elected United States
Senator for California.
THE dressed-beef shippers of Chicago
have demanded classified rate east.
THE lower house of tho Illinois Assembly
has passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erection of monument to General John
A. Logan at Chicago.
A. s. PADDOCK has been chosen United
States Senator by the Nebraska Legisla-
ture, defeating Van Wyck. The final ballot
stood: Paddock. Republican. 81; McShane,
Democrat, 81; Van Wyck, f.
j. B. Button, postmaster of Augusta,
Wis, has been arrested for short accounts.
THE dead body of a man named Brown. a
logger, was found under the ice in the
slough, at Alton, Ill, recently. He had been
missed for two or three days.
JUDGE SCOTT, of st. Clair County, Mo-,
the fugitive from United States court pro
cess servers, has been captured by Deputy
Marshal Willis. The judge had been in
hiding several months, the people being in
hearty sympathy with him in his refusal to
make tax levy to satisfy the fraudulent
Tebo Il Neosho railway bonds issued in
1868.
THREE men were seriously scalded at
Lincoln, ILL.,, recently by vat of hot SOAP
grease suddenly opening upon them.
THE SOUTH.
THE bodies of four tramps, burned to
death, were found in the debris of box
car at Paducah, KY. recently.
LUXE ANDERSON, the notorious desperate
and firebug. was recently captured in a
cave near Anderson Station, Tenn, by De-
tective Elliott, aided by posse. The des-
perados brother, Tom Anderson, was shot
in the melee that ensued. Luke Anderson
had killed three men, and there was big
reward for his arrest.
THE Texas Senate passed a joint resolution
from the House requesting the Texas Con-
gressmen to use every endeavor to repeal
the high tariff laws.
FIRE at Union Springs, Ala, the other day
destroyed the hotel, post-ofice and three
stores, causing loss of $4,000
SENATOR CAMDEN has been reelected from
West Virginia.
The presidents of the nine coal compa-
mics in the Georges creek and Cumberland